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keep feeding the turnip greens. Will keep him getting nutrients but try to mix in some seaweed selects and maybe formula 2 frozen. Sooner later he will be eating everything.

I tried this but the holes in the canvas let the water run thru it instead of over it. To get this too work I would have to redesign this thing. I am getting hair algae growing so I am happy but I do wish it would grow a little faster. Maybe I will sand this thing some more with a even lower...

Also I don't think people realize the choppers big clowns get. My 5" tomato has a knarly little set of teeth and likes to use them on my other fish especially my tangs. Unfortunatly he always looks like cage fighter with cuts all over him from my tangs scalpels.

The only advise I can give you is try to get a bigger tank for this guy or take him back. I think by himself in a smaller tank that is filtered right he would be ok but with other tank mates there just isn't enough room for him to escape his wrath.

Here is my growth after 11 days. Lots of brown stuff and green hair algae. Looking good but I think it's time for a cleaning.

Corals and anenomes are their main diet in the wild.

Too small a tank. I have a large tomato and 2 ocellaris in a 150g but there is plenty of room to spread out. My tomato is a terror and chases everything that comes within a foot of his cave. To be honest I wouldn't even recommend a maroon for a 55g. He will eventually think that tank is his and...

Originally Posted by unleashed also you may want to dose your tank with kent logal iodine solution be exact on dosing directions.. eels need iodine.. this will help prevent goiter.. Unleashed I agree with everything you said up until this point. I have had a snow flake for around 14 months...

Yeah don't worry. Mine went 10 days without eating when I first got him. He will be ok.

Originally Posted by It's Chuck should be fine just know it will be a pain to feed the eel with that trigger This is very true. I have to swat at the glass to scare my wrasse and tangs so they don't grab the food off the stick. Will be hard to do this with a humu since they really don't get...

Originally Posted by leftyblite I got mine when he was about the same small size as yours. I fed him the small pieces of silversides or the small runt ones that tend to come in every package. Now it is a mixture of silversides, squid, krill, and sometimes clam meat. I've had him for a little...

Actually I kind of discovered the solution to nitrates on accident on my old 55g tank. I was battling a brutal hair algae outbreak in my DT and had bought every critter known to try and gobble it up. I set up an above tank fuge that pumped water up and gravity fed back to my tank with the...

If I remember correctly you had these guys in a 75 gallon or something of the sorts. Have you upgraded tanks or are they still in smaller confines? A bigger tank would definately help this but I wouldn't worry too much about it if he is spreading the aggression out equally among all your fish...

If you keep fish I wouldn't feed too many silverslides. I have heard from people who do that their eel gets the taste for fish and their fish start disappearing. I would feed shrimp and squid from the grocery store. I have never fed mine any type of fish and he has never touched any of my small...

Also that pic is about 4 months old and I think he has even grown since then. I will try to take a more recent pic if I can get him out in the open.

I have had him a year and 2 months. If you feed every day they will grow really, really fast and it also slows their aggression and desire to escape. They do put a bit of load on filtration so you will want to filter your tank as good as possible. If you really want some entertainment buy a big...

Salt life I hope I didn't offend you. I was just stating that in my experience space wise a 46g is plenty for a snowflake eel. However I agree you will need excellent filtration as they are heavy on the load. Add a algae scrubber or fuge growing alot of hair algae and prune it weekly and you...

Originally Posted by Salt Life that tank is too small for a full sized SFE, 55 would be better and 75g would be best for one. I disagree with this. My 22" eel curls up in a conch shell and sits there all day and night. These fish do not need alot of room. They are not like a tangs or wrasses...

My thinking on this hole thing is that reef critters really don't dig hair algae. Really nothing in the ocean does. I have been on reefs in hawaii, the bahamas, cancun, cozumel and the keys and really have never seen hair algae on a thriving reef. The algae that grows on reefs is more of a...

Snowflakes are pretty harmless and will not usually eat small fish unless they are really hungry. I have a 22" one that I keep with a psuedo, a small blue damsel, 2 dwarf angels and some chromis and he never has touched any of them. Crabs and most definately shrimp are however on the menu and...